fqih
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Moroccan Arabic فقيه (fqīh).
Noun
editfqih (plural fqihs or fuqaha')
- Alternative form of faqih
- 1973, Robin Leonard Bidwell, Morocco Under Colonial Rule, Routledge, page 171:
- In the early days of the Protectorate, the fqih or clerk-interpreter was often an Algerian who despised the local Arabs as rustics and regarded the Berbers as scarcely human.
- 1998, Alison Baker, Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women, SUNY Press, page 84:
- So my father asked the fqih, who lived in the same street that I lived in, to take me into his Koranic school.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Moroccan Arabic فقيه (fqīh).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfqih m (plural fqihs)
Further reading
edit- “fqih”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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